Or, at the end of the day is the default interchange format in this space just CSV?
So at some point you are going to have to deal with an accountant who will not typically know what ledger is. The solution is actually very simple: we wrote a small ruby script that generates an excel file that contains a balance and profit and loss statement in a format they are familiar with. That's the cool think about everything being text based, it's really easy to pipe the ledger output into a script and into a gem that generates an Excel file and add some styling.
The raw journal files are also in a format accountants can easily comprehend, they didn't actually look at those in our case, but if they want to know where the Excel comes from they are welcome to audit them.
Something tells me they can't be too picky about such things. My experience with the tax authorities in three countries now tells me they'll take whatever odd format data you hand them.
https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/business-and-organisation/sta...
> SAF-T Financial is a standard format used in the exchange of accounting data. SAF-T, or Standard Audit File-Tax, is the result of a joint development collaboration between the business community, the accounting sector and the Norwegian Tax Administration, based on a recommendation by the OECD.